Miss San Antonio stripped of crown

Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, February 23, 2011

A Texas judge says Miss San Antonio can't keep her crown after suing pageant organizers in a saga that put a national spotlight on the teenager's size-2 figure.

Domonique Ramirez on Wednesday lost her bid to temporarily stop the pageant from stripping her title and naming her runner-up as the new Miss San Antonio. The pageant ousted Ramirez last month, saying the 17-year-old violated her contract with conduct unbefitting a beauty queen.

The pageant accused Ramirez of being chronically late for events — and of an adding an inch or two to her figure.

Ramirez denied the allegations, and the issue over her weight made her the target of interview requests from far away as Australia.

Ashley Dixon is now set to represent the city in the Miss Texas pageant.